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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nina Gunde-Cimerman; Aharon Oren; Ana Plemenitaš |
| ISBN: | 1402036329 9781402036323 1402036337 9781402036330 |
| OCLC Number: | 62092233 |
| Description: | xi, 576 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Microbial diversity of Great Salt Lake / Bonnie K. Baxter, Carol D. Litchfield, Kevin Sowers, Jack D. Griffith, Priya Arora DasSarma and Shiladitya DasSarma -- Microbial communities in the Dead Sea - past, present and future / Aharon Oren, Ittai Gavrieli, Jonah Gavrieli, Marco Kohen, Joseph Lati and Mordehay Aharoni -- Microscopic examination of microbial communities along a salinity gradient in saltern evaportation ponds: a 'halophilic safari' / Ahron Oren -- The microbial diversity of a solar saltern on San Francisco Bay / Carol D. Litchfield, Masoumeh Sikaroodi and Patrick M. Gillivet -- Diversity of microbial communities: the case of solar saltern / Carlos Pedros-Alio -- Isolation of viable haloarchaea from ancient salt deposits and application of fluorescent stains for in situ detection of halophiles in hypersaline environmental samples and model fluid inclusions / Stafan Leuko, Andrea Legat, Gergiu Fendrihan, Heidi Wieland, Christian Radax, Claudia Gruber, Marion Pfaffenhuemer, Gerhard Weidler and Helga Stan-Lotter / Hydrocarbon degradation under hypersaline conditions. Some facts, some experiments and many open questions / Heiko Patzelt -- The relevance of halophiles and other extremophiles to Martian and extraterrestrial environments / Joseph Seckbach -- Halophiles: a terrestrial analog for life in brines on Mars - halophiles on Mars / Rocco L. Mancinelli -- Comparative genomic survey of information transfer systems in two diverse extremely halophilic archaea, halobacterium sp. strain NRC-1 and haloarcula marismortui / Brian R. Berquist, Jeetendra Soneja and Shiladitya DasSarma -- Walsby's square archaeon; it's hip to be square but even more hip to be culturable / Henk Bolhuis -- Gene regulation and the initiation of translation in halophilic archaea / Felicitas Pfeifer, Peter Zimmermann, Sandra Scheuch and Simone Sartorius-Neef -- Protein translation, targeting and translocation in Haloferax volcanii / Jerry Eichler, Abriela Ring, Vered Irihimovitch, Tovit Lichi, irit Tozik and Zvia Konrad -- Enzymes of halophilic archaea. Recent findings on ureases and nucleoside diphosphate kinases / Toru Mizuki, Ron Usami, Masayuki Kamo, Masaru Tanokura and Masahiro Kamekura -- Osmoadaptation in methanogenic archaea: recent insights from a genomic perspective / Katharina Pfluger, Heidi Wieland and Volker Muller. Salinibacter ruber: genomics and biogeography / Josefa Anton, Arantxa Pena, Maria Valens, Fernando Santos, Frank-Oliver Glockner, Margarete Bauer, Joaquin Dopazo, Javier Herrero, Ramon Rossello -- Mora and Rudolf Amann -- What we can deduce about metabolism in the moderate halophile Chromohalobacter salexigens from its genomic sequence / Laszlo N. Csonka, Kathleen O'Connor, Frank Larimer, Paul Richardson, Alla Lapidus, Adam D. Ewing, Bradley W. Goodner and Aharon Oren -- K+ transport and its role for osmoregulation in a halophilic member of the bacteria domain: characterization of the K+ uptake systems from halomonas elongata / Hans-Jorg Kunte -- The chloride regulon of halobacillus halophilus: a novel regulatory network for salt perception and signal transduction in bactera / Volker Muller and Stephan H. Saum -- Biosynthesis of the compatible solute mannosylglycerate from hyperthermophiles to mesophiles. Genes, enzymes and evolutionary perspective / Milton S. da Costa and Nuno Empadinhas -- Genes and enzymes of ectoine biosynthesis in the haloalkaliphilic obligate methanotroph "methylomicrobium alcaliphilum 20Z" / Alexander S. Reshetnikov, Valentina N. Khmelenina, Ildar I. Mustakhimov, Yana V. Ryzhmanova and Yuri A. Trotsenko -- Halophilic archaea and bacteria as a source of extracellular hydrolytic enzymes / Antonio Ventosa, Cristina Sanchez-Porro, Asar Martin and Encarnacion Mellado -- Biopolyester production: halophilic microoganisms as an attractive source / Jorge Quillaguaman, Bo Mattiasson and Rajni Hatti-Kaul -- Relation of halotolerance to human pathogenicity in the fungal tree of life: an overview of ecology and evolution under stress / G. Sybren de Hoog, Polona Zalar, Bert Gerritss van den Ende and Nina Gunde-Cimerman -- Halotolerant and halophilic fungi from coastal environments in the arctics / Nina Gunde-Cimerman, Lorena Butinar, Silva Sonjak, Martina Turk, Viktor Ursic, Polona Zalar and Ana Plemenitas -- Halotolerant and halophilic fungi and their extrolite production / Jens C. Frisvad -- Introducing Debaryomyces hansenii, a salt-loving yeast / Jose Ramos -- Cellular responses in the halophilic black yeat Hortaea werneckii to high environmental salinity / Ana Plemenitas and Nina Gunde-Cimerman -- Halotolerance and lichen symbioses / Martin Grube and Juliane Blaha -- A century of Dunaliella research: 1905-2005 / Aharon Oren -- Molecular determinants of protein halotolerance: structural and functional studies of the extremely salt tolerant carbonic anhydrases from Dunaliella salina / Lakshmane Premkumar, Michal Volkovitsky, Irena Gokhman, Joel L. Sussman and Ada Zamir -- Heterotrophic protozoa from hypersaline environments / Gwen Hauer and Andrew Rogerson -- Heterotrophic flagellates in hypersaline waters / Byung C. Cho -- Haloviruses and their host / Mike L. Dyall-Smith, David G. Burns, Helen M.Camakaris, Peter H. Janssen, Brendan E. Russ and Kate Porter. |
| Series Title: | Cellular origin and life in extreme habitats and astrobiology, v. 9. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Nina Gunde-Cimerman, Aharon Oren and Ana Plemenitaš. |
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